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The Struggle for Sincerity
We live with two great desires. Beyond our desire for intimacy we also want sincerity. But, like intimacy, this too is rather elusive. It’s not easy to be sincere. I
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Providence and the Conspiracy of Accidents
Some years ago, in a class in religious experience, a woman shared this story: She had been raised in a religious home and had been a regular church-goer until her
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In Our Full Humanity
Several years ago, in church, I witnessed this incident: A young boy, perhaps six or seven years old, was growing restless and fidgety. Finally in a voice loud enough to
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Conflicting Voices
We are drowning in a sea of voices. Superficially, we see this in advertising. Everywhere around us, billboards, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, the internet, and the fashion industry, hold out
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A Spirituality of the Ascension
The Ascension throws some important light on the mystery of love and intimacy. What’s the Ascension? It’s an event inside of the life of Jesus and the early church, a
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The Noonday Devil
When the Desert fathers first formulated a list of what they considered “deadly sins”, they included the sin of sadness. It wasn’t until the 17th century that it was dropped
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A Spirituality of Non-Hurrying
“Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.” Thoreau wrote that and it’s not meant as something trivial. We hurry too much, pure
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On Becoming Post-Liberal
We’re a people losing heart. There’s a loss of heart for almost everything: for fidelity in relationships, as less and less people find within themselves the resiliency needed to live
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Setting our Ecclesial Gauges
Karl Rahner once cautioned that we should never assume that everyone alive at the same time belongs to the same generation. Nowhere is this more true than in church circles
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Mel Gibson’s Passion of Christ
When John Shea wrote his book on Jesus, he began with an apology, asking whether yet another book on Christology was really needed. I share that sentiment as I weigh